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* 2.5.13 error:  kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20
@ 2002-05-06  5:18 Jurriaan on Alpha
  2002-05-06  5:39 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jurriaan on Alpha @ 2002-05-06  5:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Suddenly, after 36 hours uptime, the console was flooded with this
message.


May  6 06:54:24 alpha -- MARK --
May  6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May  6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May  6 07:11:28 alpha last message repeated 296 times
May  6 07:11:37 alpha kernel: x20
May  6 07:11:37 alpha kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May  6 07:11:37 alpha last message repeated 314 times
May  6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May  6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May  6 07:11:39 alpha last message repeated 296 times
May  6 07:11:39 alpha kernel: ssh: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
May  6 07:11:40 alpha last message repeated 73 times
May  6 07:11:46 alpha kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
May  6 07:11:46 alpha kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
May  6 07:11:46 alpha exiting on signal 15
May  6 07:13:35 alpha syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.

Given the fact that this alpha has 1.5 Gb memory and 2 Gb swap, I feel
'out-of-memory' shouldn't happen (I was running mutt, slrn, some ssh
sessions - nothing big).

after reboot:
MemTotal:      1553808 kB
MemFree:       1397688 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:         71584 kB
Cached:          23848 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          25064 kB
Inactive:        92616 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:      1553808 kB
LowFree:       1397688 kB
SwapTotal:     2292720 kB
SwapFree:      2292720 kB
Dirty:           14760 kB
Writeback:           0 kB

Is this report useful to someone? If more info is needed, just ask me.

Jurriaan
-- 
Cadets were humping in the corridors, a party of outraged Senators roamed
Krane barracks, everyone, including me, questioned orders, ...
Law and order.
	David Feintuch - Fisherman's Hope.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.5.13 on Alpha 988 bogomips load:0.00 0.00 0.00

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* Re: 2.5.13 error:  kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20
  2002-05-06  5:18 2.5.13 error: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0 mode:0x20 Jurriaan on Alpha
@ 2002-05-06  5:39 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2002-05-06  5:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: thunder7; +Cc: linux-kernel

Jurriaan on Alpha wrote:
> 
> Suddenly, after 36 hours uptime, the console was flooded with this
> message.

36 hours is probably a world record ;)


> May  6 06:54:24 alpha -- MARK --
> May  6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: apd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

It's possible that the machine really did run out of memory.  There
are some scenarios with memory-mapped holey files and with swap which
can result in unfreeable memory.  2.5.14 is better.

> May  6 07:11:28 alpha kernel: kswapd: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
> May  6 07:11:28 alpha last message repeated 296 times

It's just a warning.  2.5.14 will calm it down.

-

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